Tyrolean State Museum

The Tyrolean Provincial Museum in Innsbruck ( since 1835 Emperor Ferdinand I ), who took over the protectorate, named after the then Crown Prince Ferdinand also Ferdinandeum and 1823 under the name Tirolisches National Museum as an association: founded (now Tyrolean Provincial Museum ). One of the initiators was Archduke Johann.

Since 2007, the museum is itself an essential part of the Tyrolean State Museums - mbH, which has taken over the operational business. The other houses of the Tyrolean museums include the Folk Art Museum, the Hofkirche, the museum in the armory, and Tirol Panorama.

The company is led by Wolfgang Meighörner, who is also director of the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum.

Collections

The Tyrolean Provincial Museum includes seven collections; addition to the actual Ferdinandeum at Museum Street, the museum in the arsenal include ( historical and technical collections Tyrol's cultural history ) and the branch in the field road ( natural science collections ) to do so.

Content provides the Tiroler Landesmuseum in particular:

• In the Pre-and Early History and the Roman Provinces collections: an overview from prehistory through the Roman period to the early Middle Ages in Tirol
• In the older Art History Collections: Arts and Crafts from the Romanesque to the Gothic to the 19th century with a Dutch collection; selected works by, among others, by Michael Pacher, Lucas Cranach the Elder Defregger. , Rembrandt H. van Rijn, Joseph Anton Koch, Angelika Kauffmann, Franz
• In the Gallery of Modern Art: Art of the 20th and 21st centuries with selected works, among other things by Albin Egger- Lienz, Max Weiler and contemporary Tyrolean artists
• In the graphic collections: Graphics from every century to contemporary photography
• In the Historical Collections: an overview of Tyrol in the Middle Ages to the present, focusing on topics such as Andreas Hofer, Schwaz silver mines, Cartography Tyrol ( Blasius Hueber, Peter Anich ) and objects from everyday culture
• In the music collections: valuable tools, Jakob Stainer violins and precious historical keyboard and wind instruments and a listening room with examples of rich Tyrolean music making
• In the library: a selected Tirolensien collection (among the Oswald von Wolkenstein handwriting c ) or the rich private library Andreas Alois Baron di Pauli of Treuheim

The last modification and extension of the Ferdinandeum took place in 2003.

Research

The natural and social scientific research of the house is documented since 2008 in the Scientific Yearbook of the Tyrolean State Museums. It is the older of publication of the Museum Association continues:

Founded in 1907, Headquartered in Ferdinandeum Historical Commission is the lead editor of the "Tiroler document book ," an edition of the oldest historical sources of the historic Tyrol region.

Directors

Since the founding of the Museum Association in 1823 a so-called custodian directed the operations of the museum everyday. The growth of the collections conditional appointment of individual collection in Charge, which are also referred to as curator. The total transactions initiates director.